Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 24 2009… Eddie Van Halen is recovering from surgery on his left hand. “Eruption” just can’t play itself ya know. Phish is staging a Halloween festival at the Indio polo grounds…y’know where they hold Coachella. Ever wanted to have you…
Seems demos really are all the rage around town this week. The above clip, aside from featuring photos from the great Allison V. Smith, features a brand new demo track from area folk hero Doug Burr, written exclusively for the upcoming independent film, Topeka–which, wouldn’t you know, is written and…
So it really looks like Tim DeLaughter is going to keep up with his streak of posting a new Polyphonic Spree demo on his blog every day–for the foreseeable future, at least–which is pretty incredible, if not a little overwhelming.Anyway, the two latest offerings over at The Fragile Army are…
Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is reporting that, go figure, it looks like Foreigner has kinda, sorta, maybe named its upcoming three-disc release, Can’t Slow Down, as a nod to Texas Motor Speedway, where the band played its first NASCAR gig.Either that or the band’s just playing… wait…
Just got the August issue of Spin — the one with Harpo Marx Jeff Tweedy on the cover — and figured, well, sure, there’s gotta be at least one Dallas band amongst “The 100 Greatest Bands You’ve (Probably) Never Heard.” And, sure enough, there they are — the Buck Pets,…
Billboard is reporting today that Colleyville’s own Demi Lovato stands a damn fine fighting chance to debut atop next week’s Billboard 200 chart when the numbers all come in on the sales for her sophomore release, Here We Go Again. Last year, Lovato’s debut, Don’t Forget, debuted at No. 2…
Last week, we shared a slideshow of images caught by Wheeler Sparks at the house party we through threw as a photo shoot for this year’s DOMA print package.And though you can see a bunch of photos Allison V. Smith took at the party for our cover package in today’s…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, July 23, 2009… Conor Oberst is allegedly retiring his Bright Eyes moniker. I would like to suggest a new name: George Taylor. Sufjan Stevens is set to release a CD/DVD set for his movie The BQE. No word yet on a set of…
Last night’s a pretty hazy one for me at this point, I’ll be honest. I think it had something to do with the fact that there really weren’t any breaks in the action–mainstage performer into punk stage performer into awards and so on. Or maybe it’s the piles of drink tickets…
[jump] Best Group: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Blues Act: Jonathan Tyler & The Northern LightsBest Male Vocalist: Jonathan TylerBest Solo Act: Sarah JaffeBest Folk Act: Sarah JaffeBest Female Vocalist: Sarah JaffeBest Album: Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1 by The Paper ChaseBest Song: “What Should We…
Tami Thomsen, general manager of last night’s Best Label winner Kirtland Records (and also the DJ at the Double-Wide Bar afterparty), filled us in yesterday on the label’s latest signing. Austin singer-songwriter and former Sandra Bullock boyfriend Bob Schneider will release his next album, tentatively titled Lovely Creatures, September 29…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, July 22, 2009… The rehearsal footage of Michael Jackson is closer to being made into a theatrical release. I guess someone is going to make a dollar off of him no matter what. John Oates mustache gets it’s own animated web series…
Ha! Like you didn’t already know.Alas, I’ll tell you anyway: Tonight, we make the Big Reveals and announce the winners to your 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards, bringing yet another wildly success awards season to a close. Fun fact: More than 1,700 people stopped through the six venues we ran…
According to Dada co-owner Ben Tapia, last Friday, the day after we posted this item saying that Dada was going to be closed for two months, his venue was visited by a Dallas Health Department official. And, upon checking out the venue’s work to clean its behind-the-bar scene, the offical…
All over the Internet this week, people are freaking out about the new demos Tim DeLaughter has posted to his Polyphonic Spree blog, The Fragile Army. So far, we’ve seen two of these, written by DeLaughter while holing himself up in an NYC apartment. The first? A track called “Blurry,”…
Yesterday, Gerard Dirkx, leader of the legendary Dallas new wave band The Telefones, sounded a bit unsure if the rumored reunion of his band was going to take place.But today things seemed to have changed for the better. Turns out there’s great news in my inbox this morning from Dirkx…
Why, yes, that is the Dallas-born, Thomas Jefferson High School-educated Marvin Lee Aday (aka Meat Loaf) in the above clip, singing out his love for A1 steak sauce. It’s part of a new ad campaign where, no joke, A1 is asking people sing their favorite love songs to their, uh,…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 21, 2009… Looks like all those years of Zen, snowboarding and clean livin’ didn’t do Adam Yauch any good–he’s been diagnosed with cancer. The band;s tour has been canceled, and its album has been put on hold. Chris Brown wants us…
Since The Nervebreakers reformed and played a gig this past April, it seems fitting that Dallas’ other great new wave/punk band of the late ’70s/early ’80s, The Telefones, do the same.Via email, one-time Telefones frontman Gerard Dirkx says he has been asked by the fine folks at the Lakewood Theater…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 20, 2009… One hit wonder, Harvey Danger, has called it a day. I guess the demand for “Flag Pole Sitta” isn’t what it used to be… Even former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassists get the swine flu: Melissa Auf der Maur will document…
There’ve been a few changes to tomorrow night’s DOMA Showcase lineup since we last spoke. Basically, two bands had to back out of the showcase. No big deal, though. We’ve replaced them with two more.Because of scheduling conflicts, you won’t see Blood of the Sun or The Gritz (the latter…
His 2006 ass-whipping at the hands of Rick Perry, in which Kinky Friedman took less than 13 percent of the vote, hasn’t stopped the Friedman’s gubernatorial aspirations. He’s already got his eye on the 2010 election. Then again, maybe this is all just a ploy to sell cigars.Either way, to…
